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Thursday, August 21, 2014

What is not strange is that Allaah Preserved the people of the cave from Fitnah

9. Do you think that the people of the Cave and the Inscription (the news or the names of the people of the Cave) were a wonder among Our Signs?

10. (Remember) when the young men fled for refuge (from their disbelieving folk) to the Cave, they said: "Our Lord! Bestow on us mercy from Yourself, and facilitate for us our affair in the right way!"

11. Therefore We covered up their (sense of) hearing (causing them, to go in deep sleep) in the Cave for a number of years.

12. Then We raised them up (from their sleep), that We might test which of the two parties was best at calculating the time period that they had tarried.
13. We narrate unto you (O Muhammad 
) their story with truth: Truly! They were young men who believed in their Lord (Allah), and We increased them in guidance.

14. And We made their hearts firm and strong (with the light of Faith in Allah and bestowed upon them patience to bear the separation of their kith and kin and dwellings, etc.) when they stood up and said: "Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, never shall we call upon any ilah (god) other than Him; if we did, we should indeed have uttered an enormity in disbelief.

[Surah al-Khaf]

What is not strange is that Allaah Preserved the people of the cave from Fitnah, sleeping for hundreds of years, because of their Emaan and Taqwa. What is strange is that the Ummah that is awake wants the same results and to be spared from Fitnah without having the same qualities as them.

> Shaykh Sa'ood ash-Shuraym, Imaam Haram in Makkah


[Taken from a post from the Shaykh's official Twitter account, 9 /10/1435 - 5/8/2014]

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